This low-budget independent film comedy-drama from
writer/director Kevin Smith was an honest and appealing story of
opposites-attract love between two New Jersey comic-book artists:

Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck)

Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), a lesbian-identified
bi-sexual

In the film's double-take scene in a dyke bar, Alyssa
was brought onstage ("Get up here and sing, bitch") to
perform the song "Alive" ("I want to feel passion,
I want to feel pain") dedicated "for that someone special
out there." Shockingly, the "special" person turned
out to be Kim (Carmen Llywelyn) - a platinum-blonde dyke wearing
a tight white T-shirt who was watching in the audience.

After the song finished, Alyssa pointed to the admiring
woman, beckoning with one finger for her to come forward. The lesbian
couple then kissed while Holden looked on in disbelief and his buddy
Banky (Jason Lee) applauded and then said about the pairing:

"Hot! Now that, my friend, is a shared
moment."

The lesbian couple continued to get "mushy" and
kiss, as the two guys shared their table in the club, when Banky
confessed:

"When are we ever gonna get a chance to see
this kind of s--t live without paying for it?"

In & Out (1997)

Same
Sex Kiss

Director Frank Oz's PG-13 rated romantic comedy was
one of Hollywood's few attempts to make a mainstream comedic gay
film. The comedy-of-manners was partially based upon the incident
at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony when Best Actor-winning Tom Hanks
thanked his homosexual high-school drama teacher. In the film, Matt
Dillon portrayed studly actor Cameron Drake who won an Oscar, and
during his acceptance speech outed his favorite high school teacher
as being gay.

outed bisexual Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), a
high-school English teacher living in the small Indiana town of
Greenleaf

Malloy nearly ran over Howard as he was riding his
bicycle in the countryside. Although uninjured, when Howard complained:
"I want my life back," Malloy confessed: "I'm gay. I
came out." He then reassured Howard: "Sometimes the worst
thing you think can happen turns out to be the best thing." He
then smelled out Howard's sexual proclivity by asking the question: "What
was Streisand's eighth album?" Howard immediately knew the answer:

Other suspicions were based on Howard's pronounced
theatrical or "prissy" mannerisms, and the fact that he
hadn't had a "physical relationship" with his fiancee Emily
(Joan Cusack) of three years.

Lolita (1997)

Open-Mouthed,
Under-age Scandalous Kissing

Director Adrian Lyne's 1997 erotically-charged, sensual
remake (with Jeremy Irons and 15 year-old actress Dominique Swain
at the time of filming) was controversial for its aberrant, still-taboo
and touchy topic of underage sexuality and incestual pedophilia.

The young 14 year-old "nymphet" Dolores "Lolita" Haze
jumped into house-boarder/step-father Professor Humbert's arms and
gave him a kiss before she departed for camp.

Their second kiss was after he picked her up at camp,
following her mother's accidental death. In their station wagon as
he was driving along, she asked for a kiss - when he pulled over,
she hopped into his lap and delivered two sensuous kisses.

When they spent an overnight in a hotel, they were
forced to share a room with only a double bed. Early the next morning
after sleeping in the same bed, in one of the film's most controversial
scenes, she turned over and wet-kissed him on the mouth with a French
kiss. She then confessed to having played sexual games with a boy
named Charlie at camp, and then said she would have to demonstrate
what she had learned: "I guess I'm gonna have to show you everything." As
a prelude to oral sex and intercourse, she started to remove his
pajama bottoms (and her own retainer) before a fade-out. Humbert
explained in voice-over: "Gentlewomen
of the jury, I was not even her first lover."

Much later during their second road trip when
tensions and jealousy arose between the two, he suspected that she
had another rival "nymphet" lover like himself (pedophile
playwright Clare Quilty (Frank Langella), revealed in the film's conclusion)
following them - when he saw her obviously smudged lipstick, he threw
her onto the bed, ripped open her white blouse, forced a kiss from
her (as lipstick became smeared on their faces) and made love to her,
as he aggressively asked and pleaded who had violated her: "You
tell me who it is - who is it?" but Lolita wouldn't answer him.

Goodbye Kiss Before Leaving for Camp After Summer Camp, Kissing in the Car"French Kiss"Smudged Lipstick Kisses

Open Your Eyes (1997, Sp./It./Fr.)
(aka Abre los Ojos)

Virtual
Reality Kisses

In director Alejandro Amenabar's confusing, baffling,
plot-twisting and somewhat captivating film that blurred reality
and dreams, the main character was wealthy and narcissistic playboy
25 year-old Cesar (Eduardo Noriega). He had a black-haired lover
Nuria (Najwa Nimri), who was becoming jealous and obsessive, and
feeling abandoned and only used for sex.

On the occasion of his 25th birthday,
he had met and flirted with beautiful brunette Sofia Cueto (Penelope
Cruz), the girlfriend of his good friend Pelayo (Fele Martínez). Cesar's
sexual flirtation with Sofia was obviously unethical - his friend Pelayo
would soon accuse him of stealing her away. He flirted with Sofia that
evening and they shared portrait sketches of each other.

After a deliberately-caused major car accident with
Nuria driving her sports-car, she was killed and Cesar was seriously
injured, with disfiguring facial injuries. After the accident, Cesar
had a prosthetic mask. He became suicidal and was suffering from
mental trauma and delusions, and was looking for a way to resolve
his life predicament. He began to have unsettling disjunctions, dreamy
wish fulfillments (mostly to get together with Sofia, or to have
a new face), and bewildering reality flips. (Note:
From here on, the film was an "artificial perception" or
dream, provided by a cryogenics company to which he was contracted.)

One of the film's main themes was 'awakening' from
a dream or sleep. Cesar 'awoke' in a
Madrid street by his new girlfriend Sofia's whispered words: "Open
your eyes" and a kiss. Soon
afterwards, the two lovers made passionate love in a very sensual
topless love scene, with his face intact.

In the film's conclusion, after he discovered that
he was in fact trapped in a virtual reality simulation generated
by the cryogenics company (Life Extension or L.E.) '150 years' into
the future, he resolved to "wake up" from his
nightmarish existence to rejoin the real world - by jumping off the
roof of the L.E. high-rise skyscraper.

Immediately before doing so, the main representative
of Life Extension, Serge Duvernois (Gérard Barray), asked
him: "Do you have any wish before you die?" Cesar closed
his eyes, and conjured up his long-dead lover Sofia, breathtakingly
beautiful in an almost transparent white dress, and restored his
own face to normal. Wordlessly, he embraced her. He also imagined
his long-dead best friend Pelayo looking on.

After Duvernois warned: "Don't keep suffering.
It's all in your head. It's all psychological," a teary-eyed
Cesar gave Sofia a long, farewell kiss, dramatically shot from a
low angle with the light streaming brightly from behind them. He
then boldly stood on a ledge, took one look back at his imaginary
friends, and jumped from the roof.

Starship Troopers (1997)

A
T-Shirt Masked Kiss

Director Paul Verhoeven's science-fiction adventure
thriller took time out from the man vs. alien insects plot for a
romantic interlude and brief nude scene between:

beautiful, athletic redhead Pvt. Dizzy Flores
(Dina Meyer)

Mobile Infantry squad member Johnny Rico (Casper
Van Dien)

She zipped open the uniform front of her unrequited
love interest, tongued his chest, and then leaned back and peeled
off her own black T-shirt (with her dog-tag dangling between her
breasts).

Part way off, it got stuck over her nose and head -
serving as a mask over her eyes as she was being tantalized and then
kissed by Johnny:

Their heated kissing was interrupted by a call to move
out because of a distress call from Planet "P."
Although Rico was initially told to be ready in 10 minutes, the officer
changed his orders to 20 minutes after he saw Dizzy in the bed. Rico
assured Dizzy: "We can do it."

Titanic (1997)

"I'm
Flying!" Kiss

In James Cameron's blockbuster disaster film, steerage
passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) kissed aristocratic Rose
DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) a number of times, but most memorably
- at the prow of the HMS Titanic during a golden glowing
sunset.

As she stepped up onto the railing of the prow, Jack
instructed her to be quiet and close her eyes:

"Give me your hand. Now close your eyes. Go
on. Step up. Now hold on to the railing. Keep your eyes closed,
don't peek...Step up onto the rail. Hold on. Hold on. Keep your
eyes closed. (She giggled) Do you trust me?...(He had her extend
her arms to the side) All right, open your eyes."

She exclaimed: "I'm flying! Jack!"

He softly sang to her: "Come, Josephine, my flying
machine. Going up, she goes, Up, she goes..." and took her hands
in his before they kissed.

Soon, as the camera circled around them, the view of
the ship was transformed into its eerie underwater grave.

Titanic (1997)

Loving
Kisses

Jack also joined Rose for a steamy, love-making scene
inside a car being transported onboard the Titanic.

While she was in the passenger seat and he was posing
as the driver, he asked: "Where to, Miss?" She whispered
in his ear to take her "To the stars" before she dragged
him through the open window into the backseat. Close to each other
before love-making, he was slightly apprehensive, but she was more
assertive:

He intimately touched her breast as he kissed her
and they reclined. (During a short interlude, the ship came closer
and closer to meeting its fateful destiny.)

"Where to, Miss?"

Rose's handprint was seen on the fogged-up window of
the car - it reached out and then slid down and left a steamy imprint.
The camera panned down to reveal their sweaty embrace, as she noticed: "You're
trembling."

He replied: "Don't worry, I'll be all right" and
then he continued kissing her.

Titanic (1997)

Last
Dying Frozen Kisses

Rose also received kisses as she floated on a large
piece of debris in the icy cold North Atlantic waters after the ship's
sinking, when they held hands and she told him: "I love you,
Jack." She complained of the intense cold and her frozen body,
but he firmly encouraged her to not give up:

"Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Not yet, do you understand me?....Listen, Rose. You're gonna
get out of here. You're gonna go on and you're gonna make lots
of babies, and you're gonna watch 'em grow. You're gonna die
an old... an old lady warm in her bed. Not here. Not this night.
Not like this. Do you understand me?...Winning that ticket, Rose,
was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to
you and I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must,
you must, you must do me this honor. You must promise me that
you'll survive, that you won't give up, no matter what happens,
no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go
of that promise....Never let go."

She promised, and he replied: "Never let go." She
shivered and responded: "I will never let go, Jack. I'll never
let go."

He kissed her hand before his corpse froze of hypothermia
in the cold Atlantic Ocean, although they maintained their hand-grip.

When she was about to be rescued by a boat by summoning
it with a whistle, she let go of Jack's hand, although repeated the
phrase:

"I'll never let go. I promise" as he sank
underwater into the frigid waters.

In the final dream sequence, elderly Rose (Gloria Stuart)
fantasized that she met and kissed Jack at the top of the elegant
Grand Staircase surrounded by an applauding audience of all those
who died on the ship - now they were together forever